Editing Rudy Giuliani (section)

=== Other legal issues ===
In September 2023, law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron sued Giuliani for over $1.3&nbsp;million in unpaid legal fees. The firm alleged that Giuliani had paid only $214,000 of his total legal bill between November 2019 and July 2023. Giuliani said in a statement that the firm's bill "is way in excess to anything approaching legitimate fees."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goudsward |first=Andrew |date=2023-09-19 |title=Giuliani sued over $1.4 million in unpaid legal fees |language=en |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/legal/giuliani-sued-over-14-million-unpaid-legal-fees-2023-09-19/ |access-date=2023-10-05}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pengelly |first=Martin |date=2023-09-19 |title=Rudy Giuliani sued by own lawyer for $1.3m in unpaid fees |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/19/rudy-giuliani-sued-lawyer-unpaid-fees |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Polantz |first=Katelyn |date=2023-09-19 |title=Rudy Giuliani's former attorneys sue him for more than $1.3 million in unpaid legal fees |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/18/politics/rudy-giuliani-legal-fees-lawsuit/index.html |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref>

Also in September 2023, [[Hunter Biden]] filed a civil lawsuit against Giuliani, his companies and attorney Robert Costello, alleging that they had spent years "hacking into, tampering with, manipulating, copying, disseminating, and generally obsessing over data that they were given that was taken or stolen from" his personal devices and caused "total annihilation" of his digital privacy.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Cole |first1=Devan |last2=Reid |first2=Paula |date=2023-09-26 |title=Hunter Biden sues Rudy Giuliani and his former attorney, alleging they tried to hack his devices |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/politics/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-lawsuit/index.html |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=26 September 2023 |title=Hunter Biden sues Trump ally Rudy Giuliani over data breach allegations |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/26/hunter-biden-sues-trump-ally-rudy-giuliani-over-data-breach-allegations |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=[[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mangan |first=Dan |date=2023-09-26 |title=Hunter Biden sues former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani over infamous laptop |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/26/hunter-biden-sues-rudy-giuliani-over-infamous-laptop.html |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=CNBC |language=en}}</ref> Biden dropped the lawsuit in June 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Grumbach |first1=Gary |last2=Lebowitz |first2=Megan |date=2024-06-14 |title=Hunter Biden to drop lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/hunter-biden-drop-lawsuit-rudy-giuliani-robert-costello-rcna157126 |access-date=2024-07-04 |website=NBC News |language=en}}</ref>

In October 2023, Giuliani filed a defamation lawsuit in [[New Hampshire]] against President [[Joe Biden]] for referring to him as a "Russian pawn" during a [[2020 United States presidential debates|2020 presidential debate]]. Giuliani alleged that Biden's comments were false and that he had been personally harmed by them.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Zachary |last2=Main |first2=Alison |date=2023-10-04 |title=Rudy Giuliani sues Joe Biden for calling him a 'Russian pawn' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-lawsuit-joe-biden-russian-pawn/index.html |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schonfeld |first=Zach |date=2023-10-04 |title=Giuliani sues Biden for defamation over 'Russian pawn' remark |url=https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4238493-giuliani-sues-biden-for-defamation-over-russian-pawn-remark/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005001114/https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4238493-giuliani-sues-biden-for-defamation-over-russian-pawn-remark/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 5, 2023 |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Giuliani did not respond to a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in March 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-03-02 |title=Giuliani appears to give up on his much-hyped 'Russian pawn' defamation suit against Biden |url=https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/giuliani-appears-to-give-up-on-his-much-hyped-russian-pawn-defamation-suit-against-biden/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=Law & Crime |language=en}}</ref> The lawsuit was dismissed in September, with the judge saying that Giuliani had "utterly failed" to carry his burden.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Rashid |first=Hafiz |date=September 16, 2024 |title="Utterly Failed": Judge Shuts Down Giuliani's Latest Desperate Lawsuit |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/185994/utterly-failed-judge-rudy-giuliani-defamation-lawsuit-biden |access-date=2024-09-19 |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |issn=0028-6583}}</ref>